Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
With some discs, the very first notes tell you to expect something special. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff sing softly together...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018
Karolos are a dynamic, virtuoso chamber collective of first-rate players. These two discs – issued separately but together comprising over...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018
Even when working with large-scale forces such as opera and music theatre, Michael Berkeley’s style and expression remain attuned to...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2018
I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about the Elias Quartet’s interpretative style that’s so powerfully...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
Air from another planet: when the Danish String Quartet first encountered late Beethoven it felt to them (as they explain...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2018
This debut disc from the American violinist Elicia Silverstein draws its title from the first line of a Metastasio sonnet...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2018
‘Exceptional artistry, technical perfection and boundless imagination’ it says on the back cover. Such hype normally puts my back up....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018
The 24-year-old Franco-Spanish classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia’s third recording – his second for Erato – revisits the music of Bach...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2018
Like its predecessors, the third volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ is a model of imaginative programme-building....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018
Anyone on the receiving end of a Borletti-Buitoni fellowship gets my respect, as it’s generally an indicator of prodigious musical...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2018
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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